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11/25/11--17:30: Comment on Oven Bird. by Ø (chan 2012433)

<i>died of leprosy</i> a leprous leporid


11/25/11--19:17: Comment on Oven Bird. by Grumbly Stu (chan 2012433)

Jesús: <i>superb painting drawn by Eduardo Naranjo</i> Yes, it shows just how my hands felt after trying to pull the hide off without having nailed one end of it to the table (bedstead ?).


11/26/11--03:42: Comment on Oven Bird. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

Interesting. Norway doesn't get much press (publicity). "Norway: Mellom himmel of jord" - that should be "Norway: Mellom himmel <b>og</b> jord". I don't suppose it matters much.


12/10/11--03:15: Comment on Oven Bird. by Julia (chan 2012433)

Yes, I'm sure he's a viewer of channels like "Travel & Living", or "National Geographic" or "The History Channel"... I bet he's very practical and interested in great deeds of history and big works of art. But maybe dearieme is right and he likes goofy tv programs... I'll ask him the next time I come across him.


12/10/11--07:29: Comment on Oven Bird. by dearieme (chan 2012433)

More on our heron: he/she was back at breakfast time, standing on our garage roof. Enquiry reveals that a near neightbour has a pond, with a fake heron stood by it, on the theory that it would repel real herons. P'raps not.


12/10/11--10:15: Comment on Oven Bird. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

Why the hell would your neighbour want to repel real herons? Goldfish? I'd rather have a heron than a bunch of goldfish. They should keep fake goldfish, not fake herons.


12/15/11--07:11: Comment on Oven Bird. by Ø (chan 2012433)

A palindrome is a word or phrase that is the same backwards: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" and "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" are the best-known examples, but "I", "aa", "dad", "poop", "refer", and "Retter" certainly qualify. Someone coined the word "semordnilap" for a word or phrase that spells something else when reversed.


12/15/11--07:12: Comment on Oven Bird. by Grumbly Stu (chan 2012433)

"palindrome" -> "mailed porn".


12/15/11--07:45: Comment on Oven Bird. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

Sarah Palindrome would be a good Alaskan airport name.


12/19/11--01:37: Comment on Oven Bird. by bruessel (chan 2012433)

Smargana reminds me of Morgana as well. Is anybody watching the BBC's Merlin?


12/19/11--13:41: Comment on Oven Bird. by dearieme (chan 2012433)

Bogus creature alert! http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/markets-in-everything-the-culture-that-is-china.html#comments


12/20/11--01:16: Comment on Oven Bird. by Jesús (chan 2012433)

Talking about pets, I’ve just seen this incredible video. It reminds me some cases of humans in some countries, like Spain in the past. Fortunately, the leopard doesn’t do it intentionally: http://useloos.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=16369met%2a


12/24/11--02:10: Comment on Oven Bird. by Julia (chan 2012433)

In today's front page of our main paper: <a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1435256-noruega-la-buena-vida" rel="nofollow"> "Why Norway is the best place to live"</a> (Do you think the girls would lend me a little spot in their house?)


12/24/11--02:39: Comment on Oven Bird. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

Thank you for that link, Jesús. Very interesting - though it also says <em>norvégien</em> God Jul ! <em>se prononce comme l'anglais</em> good <em>+ [yul]</em>, which is not quite right (you don't pronounce the <em>d</em> in Norwegian <em>god</em>, but you do in English <em>good</em>).


12/24/11--03:28: Comment on Oven Bird. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

Yes of course you can come and spend summers with the goats, Julia! Bring something warm if you're planning to spend the winter there, though. I'm not sure what those indexes of "best country" are trying to show, but what they certainly don't show is the place where anyone will be their happiest.


12/26/11--05:01: Comment on A Merry Chistmas To All Our Readers. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

Many thanks for drawing my attention to this. I don't know what I was thinking. It is of course "Partly About Goats".


12/26/11--10:05: Comment on A Merry Chistmas To All Our Readers. by Trond Engen (chan 2012433)

Those are not Santa's helpers, they are innocent victims of dark forces. Father Christmas seems to have taken Wotan's or Sigurd's place as leader of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Aasgaardreien_peter_nicolai_arbo.jpg" rel="nofollow">Oskoreia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt" rel="nofollow">The Wild Hunt</a>, the horde of trolls and demons being unleashed in the lawless <a href="http://abadguide.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/romjul/" rel="nofollow">romjul</a> days.


12/26/11--14:10: Comment on A Merry Chistmas To All Our Readers. by A. J. P. Crown (chan 2012433)

That wild hunt is interesting. I'd forgotten my Space Christmas card. Thanks.


12/29/11--03:58: Comment on A Merry Chistmas To All Our Readers. by Trond Engen (chan 2012433)

(1) Nothing but a strange mistranslation. (2) It says <i>hold av geitebukker</i>, i.e. <i>keeping of he-goats</i>, but I've never heard of a prohibition. (3) Now it says <i>do fruentimmere with children</i>. Make women pregnant. The banner at the bottom of the Norwegian WP page translates as <blockquote>The article uses sources in an unconventional way, if at all. Several dubious theories are being propagated.</blockquote>


12/29/11--05:04: Comment on A Merry Chistmas To All Our Readers. by Trond Engen (chan 2012433)

Oh, and I let the greengrocer into the <i>women's quarter's</i>.